So, back after three new install-runs. I used report-issues this time. The install went fine up until I chose to manage the mount points. I did not chose aif to handle making partitions, because cfdisk cannot handle GPT.
My settings were as follows: 1. My SSD needs two partitions: /boot on ext2 and / on ext4. Recreating both these FS's have worked 3/3 - confirmed; 2. My backup disk needed to be mounted without recreating the FS: /media/backup on ext4: worked 3/3 - although not really confirmed: it never threw an error, but maybe aif crashed before getting to this point; 3. My RAID-array needed to be mounted as a new LVM. I want the LV to take up the whole array, so I chose the value that aif showed as its capacity: 915522MiB. This failed: 0/1 Next, I tried with a value '915000MiB': this failed also: 0/2 Last, I tried with the default value of 5000: this also failed: 0/3. aif showed all three times the error 'process_filesystem error': error creating filesystem lvm-pv on /dev/sda Then it proceeded with making the FS's on /dev/sdb Then it gave me 10 iterations of the same error as above, but then with regards to lvm-vg and again lvm-pv. Then aif crashed and I reported the crash: http://sprunge.us/aMUe http://sprunge.us/jMGM (third time I forgot to do this, but the settings - except for the size of the lvm - and errors were identical). Final notice: During my second and third try, I selected 'no' to start over and not go further where the last installation had failed. Nonetheless the dialog box when creating FS's included all the messages from the previous installation-attempt. > > > * ERROR 3: Then I used ext4 on my sdb3, checking the option to format > > > the partition with aif, but that failed. exiting the installer and > > > preparing/formatting the disk manually, worked. Using aif only to set > > > the mountpoints worked. > > > > I really need to know the specific error to be able to fix that. maybe > > the device was in use because of something you were doing? (or because > > aif did something with it in a previous run, in which case you should > > have rollbacked - unless aif crashed, of course) I did not see the same error this evening: creating the ext4 FS worked 3/3. > > > * ERROR 4: Next was creating an LVM on the array. It was a simple > > > LVM: 1 primary volume, 1 logical volume and formatted as ext4. I got > > > an error on 'making lvm-lv': 'process_filesystem needs a partition as > > > $1'. It occurred to me later that I might have entered a > > > partition-size that was larger than the available amount, but the > > > installer did not warn me about that and just exited. I also found it > > > hard to use the LVM-portion of aif. > > > > https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/19454 Apparently, this was not the case for my problem. I know the RAID-5 array is 4x 320GB, of which 3x320GB should be usable. even when I chose 5000MiB, it failed. I hope the report-issues bring you more insight in this. Vincent -- Advocatenkantoor Suy, Van Baeveghem & Van Houtte Brusselsestraat 108 9200 Dendermonde T +32.52.52.06.05 F +32.52.52.06.46 W http://www.synergylaw.be
